Pop Quiz

How Well Do You Know `Dad' Anyway?

The guy is in your house right now. He's on Nickelodeon and NBC and inside your video tape collection. He's sitting there on the bookshelf. There may even be a poster of him on the wall.

He's not related to you, but you call him "Dad" anyway. He also goes by Ward, Archie, George, King Lear, Al and Cliff. He's the mass culture version of the biological creature known as The Father. He's the parent populi, the man we know through literature and history and television and the movies - and accept as Pop. We recognize his kids, his life story, his quirks and mannerisms. In many ways, he is real.